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Monday, 29 July 2013

I have been meaning to make my sister in-law a She Art for a long time and time had just slipped away from me.

Well finally this weekend with the help from my newly purchased Prima, Mixed Media Doll Stamp and with the inspiration of the mood board challenge at Jot Magazine. I finally completed a She Art for my sister in-law and what perfect timing as it can also be a house warming gift too as they just moved into a new house.

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

I am truly lucky to personally know Sharmaine as she is a fellow Tasmanian, and we live close by and we can catch up for a coffee every now and then if our busy lives will let us.

I have always found Sharmaine's work very inspiring and she is a great sounding board for my scrappy life and a awesome listener.

With this challenge the hardest part was picking one of the many amazing layouts created by Sharmaine, but finally after strolling through her online gallery at Cocoa Daisy I found this one.

Pink Day

I really love how Sharmaine uses paper and I love that she uses layers on a lot of her layouts, and wanted to give it ago.

Here I go.

Those layers.

Stitching and that awesome doodling.

Telling the story.

X country (cross country)

I am really pleased with my take on Sharmaine's "Pink Day" layout and I really enjoyed making my version. Pop on over to Cocoa Daisy and check out Sharmaine gallery you might find that inspirations that you might be just looking for.

Monday, 22 July 2013

Yep that territory was
baking. I can do it, but not very often and not as elaborate as this
creation.

My beautiful daughter
Grace turned 14 on Sunday and for ages I have always wanted to buy or
maybe make a rainbow cake for her.

I have seen so many of
them posted on various sites and they have always fascinated me.

So on Saturday evening
I plunge in feet first to the would of multiple baking, food
colouring, and massive amounts of icing and something that said would take 2
hours turned into 4.

Igot my recipe from this sitewww.bettycrocker.com and
I brought Greens Vanilla packet mixes and followed their instructions to
make their batter. I used 3 packets instead of 2 as my baking pans where larger
in size. I use Queen Food colouring as I could not find Betty Crocker® classic gel food colors. When using the Queen’s
colours don't be afraid to use quite a few drops to get that deep
colour. Oh and the colouring does not change the taste to the vanilla cake
mix.

I separated the
plain vanilla batter into 6 different bowls and added the colour to
each bowl.

Remember to make orange its yellow and red together and
to make purple use blue and red colouring together. When mixing
the colours just use small amount at a time and then keep adding until
you achieve the right colour.

When your cakes have baked for 20 minutes, let them cool for 10
minutes and then turn them out onto a cooling rack for another 10 minutes to
cool. I made the mistake of not cutting my cakes to make them flat for staking.
So if you wish for your cake to look like a neater stack CUT THEM!!!

I iced my cake using the icing from the Green vanilla cake mixes. I did make the mistake of not creaming my
butter before adding the icing powder hence why my icing isn't fluffy. But hey
everyone has to have a learning curve while creating something.

Be
aware that you may have to make more if your cakes are larger they make
quite a big stack, be ready to do a lot of icing.

And here it is...my first every rainbow cake, and even though I'm
not a baker I am truly pleased with my effort for a first timer.

Oh just for fun and
for those who are not following me on Facebook or YouTube here
is the video of my daughter and I cutting the cake for
her birthday last night.

Be warned there is
squealing in this video and could hurt some peoples hearing....Oh and its me by
the way...LOL

I hope some of you out
there give it a go and if you have already please post a comment below with a
link to yours so I can check it out. :)

Well in the last two months I have been a busy little scrapper making goodies for the Scrapbooking Memories 2014 Masters.

For the first time in all my years of scrapbooking I plucked up the courage to enter.

I know that this might sound weird to some, but I'm not worried about winning, it seems that my competitive side of me is subdued with the satisfied feeling of just entering this amazing challenge and completing all task required.

I am just truly pleased with myself that I entered and that like the rest of the scrappers that have entered too, I am in there with a chance.

To be able to share my work with other is an amazing feeling and this is another bonus to scrapbooking. I am really happy to be posting this parcel off on Tuesday with smile on my face and a feeling of complete satisfaction.